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Quickly swap assignment operands

It often happens that you need to swap the operands of an assignment. For example, say that you have this set of assignments: p1.FirstName = m_FirstNamep1.LastName = m_LastName and later

Transform a variable into a Property

Thanks to Visual Studio.NET macros, it is quite simple to automate the task of transforming a Public field into a Property with the same name that accesses a private field

Running ILDASM from inside Visual Studio .NET

Nothing beats ILDASM when it’s time to understand what your VB.NET or C# compiler actually emits. In this case you should prepare a desktop shortcut to ILDASM so that you

Write a console utility to list processes

The Process class provides all you need to create a command-line utility that lists all the processes running on the system and all the related information. This utility is therefore

Write a console utility to kill a process

The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes two methods that let you kill a process: CloseMainWindow should be used with processes that have a graphical interface, whereas the Kill method should be used

Wait for a process to terminate

You can use the VB.NET Shell command (in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) to run an external process and wait for its termination, but you can get better control if you work

FormatMemorySize – Format a value in bytes

Enum FormatMemorySizeUnits BestGuess Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes GigabytesEnd Enum’ convert a number of bytes into Kbytes, Megabytes, or GigabytesFunction FormatMemorySize(ByVal value As Long, _ ByVal unit As FormatMemorySizeUnits, Optional ByVal decimalDigits

FormatValue – Format a value in a column of given width

Enum FormatColumnAlignment Left Center RightEnd Enum’ format a value in a column of given width and with specified alignment’ using the specified pad character Function FormatValue(ByVal value As String, ByVal

How to improve performance with pinned tables

SQL Server experts know that the DB engine never accesses directly the data pages on disk; rather it uses a special module called “Cache Manager”. It is possible, by using

Determine the size of a structure

Unlike previous Visual Basic versions, under VB.NET you can’t use the Len function to calculate the length of a Structure or a class. However, it is easy to get this

Store large Boolean arrays in a BitArray object

.NET Boolean values require 4 bytes each, as opposed to the 2 byte taken under previous VB versions. When creating very large Boolean arrays this extra memory impacts negatively on

Release COM objects earlier

If you’re using a COM object through COM Interop you should be aware that the object isn’t released as soon as you set it to Nothing, as it happens with

Let VB Spell the Control Name for You

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Count the Number of Elements in an Array

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Extend Registry Functionality

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Return Strings From an API

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Pass Error Message Throughout Nested Components

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Preprocess Nulls in Your Recordset

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Toggle Min/Max Buttons at Run Time

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